Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 754 Speculation and Possibility

   "Sirius Black took a knife and broke into Gryffindor Tower intending to assassinate Harry Potter?"

Albert stretched out his hand to cover a yawn, listened to Fred, George and Lee Jordan describe what happened in the middle of the night, tilted his head and looked at the intact portrait channel and asked: "How did Blake, without a password, Breaking into the Gryffindor common room?"

"Longbottom wrote the password on a note, but after losing it, the note was picked up by Blake." Lee Jordan took out a handful of toad mints from his robe pocket and distributed them to everyone, and he opened one casually. Into his mouth, he said vaguely: "You were not there at the time, and you didn't see Professor McGonagall's angry appearance, so your voice was trembling with anger."

"Some time ago, Longbottom seemed to say that the note with the password was lost." Albert stretched out his hand to caress Tom, who was resting on the table, looked up at the crowded common room and asked, "Speaking of which, you should have stayed up all night. Alright, what are you doing here if you don’t go back to make up for sleep, and wait to hear if you have caught Black?"

"Yeah, everyone is waiting for the news here. Do you think Blake can slip away again?" Fred brought a cup of hot milk tea with thick milk, and held a small dish of custard left over from last night. biscuit.

   "The chances of catching Black are not great." Albert said without hesitation, "If the professors can really catch Black, I think you will definitely receive the news as soon as possible."

   "Actually, I'm more curious about why Black didn't kill Ron to silence him, and continued to look for Harry?" George asked his own doubts.

   "Do you really want your brother to be killed by Black?" Lee Jordan couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

"As early as twelve years ago, Black liked to kill innocent people." George clearly pointed out this point. "Facing five sleeping boys, Black could kill all of them. A person who is blinded by hatred, Seeing that he is about to succeed in revenge, I don't think he will give up such a good opportunity easily."

   "Maybe, Blake is worried that he will be trapped in the castle. Once everyone wakes up, it will be very difficult for him to leave the castle." Angelina also participated in this discussion.

"I don't think Black is afraid of death. If he was really afraid of death, he wouldn't have ventured into Hogwarts Castle to assassinate Harry. Tonight's incident is full of weirdness." Shanna agreed with George's words, and she didn't agree. Think a hateful man would be afraid of death, "Don't forget, your brother said that Blake had a knife, which means that Blake has no wand, and a wizard without a wand can't exert real power at all, which is almost It was Black's only chance for revenge, and he passed it up."

   "As long as he kills the people in the room, Black can completely grab the wand. I believe that a criminal who can escape from Azkaban Prison must also have a way to escape from Hogwarts Castle before the professors react."

   "He has to kill the whole school, and he might meet the teacher..." Angelina also felt that her reasons were becoming more and more untenable.

"If I were Sirius Black, I would blow up the window and jump out of the window to escape." Albert pointed to the window next to him and said, "It's too stupid to try to go out from the portrait passage. If Black is so stupid, I think He's already been captured by dementors."

   "But there are at least..."

  Alia suddenly stopped talking, and she also realized that to wizards, the height of seven or eight floors is obviously nothing. The last time Harry fell from a high altitude, he was also safe.

  The worst case is death. Would a desperado like Black really be afraid of death?

   Obviously not afraid.

   "There are indeed many suspicious things about this matter, and it is thanks to this that Ron was safe." Fred said, looking at Ron who was describing the whole thing last night to others.

"There are many ways to solve doubts. Now I ask, you answer, and tell all the reasons you can think of, no matter how absurd." Albert waved his wand, and conjured a notebook and a book out of thin air. root pen.

"first question:

  Why do you think Black didn't kill Ron, or even other people in the dormitory, and gave up revenge on Harry? "

  The pen automatically writes this passage in the notebook.

   "Don't want to kill innocent people indiscriminately?" Angelina said first, "Or, are you worried that you will be trapped in the castle after other students wake up?"

   "What about you?" Albert asked the others.

  The others frowned and thought about it, but they still couldn't figure out the reason. This matter was really suspicious.

   "Perhaps, Black is actually a good person. He actually came to give Potter a gift, but he couldn't find Harry's bed." When Fred said this, he amused himself.

"Could it be that his mind is confused, and his first instinctive reaction is to run away, just like the first reaction of most people when encountering danger is to turn around and run away." Lee Jordan thinks his reason is the most likely, " After all, Blake has been hunted by dementors and Aurors, so it's not surprising that he would have such a reaction."

   Albert recorded all these with a pen, and continued, "If I were Black, I would never give up such a good opportunity."

   "Maybe, Black didn't actually come to kill Harry, or his target wasn't Harry?" George tried to dig out more possibilities.

   "Blake broke into Harry's dormitory, apparently for some purpose. If his target wasn't Harry, then what? Obviously it couldn't be Ron, otherwise he would have had his throat cut."

"Don't forget, Dad once said that Black said in his sleep: He's at Hogwarts. Who do you think he's referring to. Harry? No, that's just our speculation." George went on, "The only What is certain is that the target Black wants to kill is in that dormitory."

"How do you think Black got the password?" Albert said again: "To be honest, I don't quite believe that Longbottom threw the password around and it happened to be obtained by Black. This seems too coincidental. Not so many coincidences."

  Fred, George, and Lee Jordan looked at each other and seemed to think of something: "You mean Blake has a helper in school?"

  Everyone looks a little uneasy, this guess is very close to the truth.

   "That person tampered with Longbottom's memory?"

"Probably."

   "Longbottom is very forgetful, so it's not easy to see his flaws."

   "Do you think it is possible for Black to pretend to be a certain professor in the school?" Shanna said, "As far as I know, there is a potion called compound potion that can make a person look like another person."

   "Who do you think is more suspicious?"

  "Professor Lupine." Shanna said without thinking, "Although he is a good professor, every year the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor will always do something, and he is new."

   "Compound medicine can do it, but it takes a lot of time to make it." Albert recorded this and continued to ask: "Does anyone else have any other ideas?"

   "Become a small animal, like someone's pet?"

   "If Black could turn into a cat, he wouldn't need a password. Of course, it could be a disguise."

   "Does anyone have a new pet?" Angelina asked.

   "Hermione's cat," said George, "and he's after Ron's mouse."

   "So, Black disguised himself as Hermione's cat to hunt down Ron's mouse?" Shanna felt very absurd when she said this.

   "How did Black enter the castle?" Albert asked again.

   "Secret way!" Fred, George, and Lee Jordan said in unison.

  After several other people looked over, they lowered their voices and said, "It must be through a secret passage. I don't think he will break into the castle swaggeringly."

   "Use a broom," Angelina said.

   "Or turn into a bird and fly into the castle," Shannah surmised.

   "Or use some weird magic, after all, no one knows if he learned any tricks from the mysterious man?" Aliya reminded.

   "One last point, how did he get away with dementors?"

   "Disillusionment Curse?" Fred shook his head after finishing speaking, because Dumbledore said at the beginning that invisibility magic has no effect on dementors.

   "Did the dementors keep him out on purpose?"

   "Is he pretending to be someone, or some kind of creature?"

  Everyone was silent. They remembered Shanna's speculation just now that Black was hiding in Hogwarts disguised as someone?

   "But how did he escape from Azkaban prison?"

   "Actually, to judge whether a professor is suspicious, you only need to see if they often take a bottle to drink. The compound medicine usually only lasts for an hour, so he must drink the compound medicine frequently to avoid exposing himself."

   "No." "No." "No."

   "In my impression, no professor has ever done this."

   Everyone searched their memories and shook their heads. This kind of thing is actually impossible to hide, at least it is impossible to completely fill it up.

   "Then it is unlikely that he pretended to be a professor. He should have a helper."

"Okay, let me sum it up." Albert quickly glanced at the notes and said, "What is certain is: Black really wanted to kill someone, and that person was in Hogwarts, Harry's dormitory, for This time Black escaped from Azkaban Prison. He knows some secret passages in the castle that even Filch knows, and he can easily enter and exit the castle without being noticed by others. Black has a helper at Hogwarts School who can help him Got the password to the Gryffindor common room, and Black was able to hide himself from the dementors through some kind of disguise."

   "I think we're so close to the truth that we just need to narrow it down and find out who Black wants to kill or his aides and we'll be able to unravel the truth."

   "I really can't think of anyone other than Harry that Black wants to kill."

   "But Blake gave up killing and others." Shanna reminded, "Assuming Blake is a good person, who would he want to kill?"

"How could Black be a good man?" Aliya thought it was ridiculous, "If he was a good man, how could he be imprisoned in Azkaban Prison for more than ten years? If he was innocent, the first thing he would do when he escaped would be It's about proving your innocence, clearing up your grievances, not coming to Hogwarts to kill people."

  (end of this chapter)